Sentence examples for old languages from inspiring English sources

Indigenous, nomadic groups, such as Australia's aborigines (with 400 languages) and southern Africa's San, have rich deposits of old languages.

Many of the hundreds of small ethnic groups were absorbed into the populations of nation-states, many old languages declined, and many formerly distinctive ways of life persisted only as remnants or artificially preserved societies.

Her first diplomatic station is Aka, a world in the grip of a Corporate State so determined to lift itself by its technological bootstraps that it has tried to eliminate old religions, old languages, history itself.

But the piece moved through various kinds of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican rhythm, roaring collective passages and moments of contrast when the band stopped its hustle, deflating and growing still, and put old languages, including the saxophone arrangements, to new ends.

While some of the other large immigrant sectors within Israel – Jews from Russia and Ethiopia, notably – tend to hold on to their customs, imprinting the communities where they resettle with their old languages and foods, the Indian community in Israel is a study in assimilation.

I particularly admired the seven pieces from Louis Andriessen's "Memory of Roses" (written between 1974 and 1993), music easy enough to be played by children, revisiting old forms and old languages and ranging from a valse triste and a minuet to a singular chorale composed of simple intervals and large gaps of silence between them.

They speak the old language.

The peasantry, however, retained the old language.

And yet here they were, claiming the old language.

The old language of subjecthood no longer has deep resonance.

Some, like the poet Amiri Baraka, talk in the tired old language of racial betrayal.